Uses of Social Bookmarking

• List web resources by class. Students go to the the bookmarking URL and click on the tag for their class
• Create pages of links students need for creating a particular project
• Teach about social bookmarking to students and teachers
• Help students manage resources for projects and papers
• Help teachers organize resources for units, projects and topics
• Organize favorites in different ways
• Access bookmarks from home, school, classrooms, or anywhere
• Linking from library media center webpage to links for different disciplines, classes, teachers, projects, etc.
• Create RSS feeds of different tags for the school library media center webpage to keep it current
• Guide students to most-relevant websites for assignments
• Sharing great sites and articles with other library media specialists
• Sharing sites with teachers by tagging them with their names and/or subjects
• Store and organize bookmarks
• Create pathfinders
• Collect and share lesson plan ideas
• Collect and share new curriculum related websites when the curriculum is changing
• Provide quick bookmarks for specific teachers for specific research projects
• Create a page of research/report help sites
• Create bibliographies for student research
• Check out sites recommended by others with similar interests
• Contact others who have similar interests to collaborate on ideas, projects, papers, publications, presentations
• Annotate websites for students and teachers
• Export bookmarks for handouts or websites for students and teachers